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Material processing has a long history spanning millennia, dating back to the use of stone tools by early humans during The Early Stone Age. Since then, we have come a long way in our use of tools for material synthesis and processing. The tools of today offer an unprecedented level of sophistication and precision, allowing us to put together material architectures with nanoscale control over their structure and properties. The latter was made possible by us learning how to produce and control the assembly of increasingly small elements from which these architectures can be built, and harnessing the control over the energy and movement of particles that we could use as tools to shape and remove the material with nanoscale and atomic-scale precision.
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Baranov, O.O., Levchenko, I., Xu, S., Bazaka, K. (2020). Introduction. In: Advanced Concepts and Architectures for Plasma-Enabled Material Processing. Synthesis Lectures on Emerging Engineering Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02035-3_1
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